Do you have a topic that is an immediate deal breaker if a manga series you were already reading suddenly featured that topic, such that you would stop reading the series (even if it was "tastefully" done)? For example: religion, rape, etc.

Production IG does excellent work when the budget is high enough. Color me optomistic. ...

New Poll - Genders and Games(23 posts, 3605 views) Posted: 741d 4h, 6m ago by senile_seinen in News
I don't think I can answer this question with the answers provided. I'm male and I tend to make whatever kind of character seems to round out the party or fit the scenario better. I think I'm about 50/50 on this one. I've played more male c ...

Age Difference Romances..why are some taboo? [Rant](10 posts, 2024 views) Posted: 896d 5h, 32m ago by senile_seinen in Manga General
In the USA it's illegal for a person above age 18 to have a sexual relationship with a person under something defined as the 'age of consent' which varies depending on just where you are in the country, but averages age 16. A few places stil ...

The Rise of Novels(27 posts, 4307 views) Posted: 909d 4h, 35m ago by senile_seinen in Manga General
Like a lot of people, I got into light novels during the Haruhi thing. The anime came out and people started scanlating the manga, but at the same time a batch of translators and editors founded Baka-Tsuki and started working on the novels.

They pretty much single-h ...

Fuuka now, wow...(41 posts, 11554 views) Posted: 980d 5h, 54m ago by senile_seinen in Fuuka
So he killed her off? Well, I thought he was just recycling Suzuka and KNIM, so this is an improvement. I'd dropped it about 20 chapters ago anyway.

Maybe he's going to rip off Kirara and have her be a ghost guiding her boyfriend in the past? ...

There actually have been quite a few manga lately that I looked at as being unusual treatments ...

New Poll - Manga App(38 posts, 3985 views) Posted: 1008d 5h, 9m ago by senile_seinen in News
I pretty much only read manga on my 10" Android tablet. I used to read it on a laptop, but then the laptop died and all the replacement options had 16x9 screens which were great for viewing manga...if you turned the laptop sideways. The old high-res 4x3 scre ...

Why the weak heroines?(12 posts, 2185 views) Posted: 1098d 3h, 6m ago by senile_seinen in Shoujo/Josei
Shoujo heroines usually have to be doormats because a) that's the societal role message Japanese shoujos get every day, and the shoujo manga published tend to deliberately reinforce it, and b) because the shoujo version of a bildungsroman has to inclu ...

New Poll - Bust(96 posts, 10128 views) Posted: 1384d 4h, 0m ago by senile_seinen in News
In manga, I like them to 'make sense' for the character. If the girl is, say, a serious athlete, it's generally rare to see a lot of fat anywhere on her, including her chest. Anything involving a first year highschooler or younger should probably be p ...

New Poll - Fonts (v2)(70 posts, 15115 views) Posted: 1669d 3h, 12m ago by senile_seinen in News
This is the day of machine lettering in comics and manga both. From what I have seen, the people typing the text into the bubbles are at the very bottom of the manga production food chain. I doubt there's either the time or the artistic force from the letterers ...

New Poll - Fonts (v2)(70 posts, 15115 views) Posted: 1670d 12h, 29m ago by senile_seinen in News
My typesetting on the first couple of chapters of HnFM is a little embarrassing because I was still learning the mechanics, but I went back and looked at the font choices and found little to complain about. That said, Hara's not the most creative mangaka wher ...

New Poll - Fonts (v2)(70 posts, 15115 views) Posted: 1671d 2h, 51m ago by senile_seinen in News
I am a super font snob. In my own scanlation work, on Hoshi no Furu Machi, WA!, and Mangaka-san there was always consideration of authorial intent.the original Japanese fonts used and application of a particular font (SFX, shouts, whispers, printed/displayed vs s ...

Shonen/Seinen with "feminine" art(26 posts, 3251 views) Posted: 1735d 1h, 15m ago by senile_seinen in I'm Looking For...
Soothing seinen has quite a bit of what you seek, although the plots might be a little relaxed if you like shounen.